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Want to get to know the Class of 1825? Select a name to read that student’s short, witty biography. You’ll learn about student high jinx such as setting a bonfire in the dorm, playing drums to disrupt other students, and forming a drinking club, along with stories about life-long friendships formed at Bowdoin, lives dedicated to the public good, and fascinating hometown and familiar connections.

A huge and special thanks to Annabel Winterberg (Bowdoin Class of 2021), Research Intern in Special Collections & Archives in Spring-Summer 2021, for pouring through old disciplinary records, alumni biographical files, published biographies, and other sources to compile these lively and informative stories.

Charles Abbott
John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Thomas Ayer
Elisha Bacon
Samuel Page Benson
Alden Boynton
James Ware Bradbury
Richmond Bradford
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Horatio Bridge
George Cheever
Jonathan Cilley
Cyrus Hamlin Coolidge
Gorham Deane
Jeremiah Dummer
Nathaniel Dunn
Joseph Jenkins Eveleth
David Foster
Patrick Henry Greenleaf
William Hale
Nathaniel Hawthorne
John Kinsman
Josiah Little
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stephen Longfellow
Alfred Martin
Alfred Mason
Frederic Mellen
Mark Newman
Hezekiah Packard
George Washington Pierce
Edward Deering Preble
Cullen Sawtelle
David Shepley
Charles Snell
William Stone
Edward Vose
Eugene Weld
Seward Wyman

Non-Graduates

John Badger

Daniel Haraden Griffin

James Milk Ingraham

George Washington Lane

John Odlin Page

Arthur Thompson

Alfred Upham (or did her graduate?)

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